The Chicago White Sox won Major League Baseball’s 2026 draft lottery on Dec. 9 at the winter meetings and will have the No. 1 overall pick for the first time since 1977, and just the club’s third in franchise history. The new Pope’s favorite team entered the lottery with the best odds (27.73%) to land the No. 1 pick, baseball’s ...

The East semifinals in the NBA Cup are set. The New York Knicks thumped the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday, Dec. 9 in a 117-101 victory fueled by a massive night from Jalen Brunson, who scored 20 of his 35 points in the first quarter. And so now New York will play the Orlando Magic in the NBA Cup East semifinal. ...

BYU basketball and Clemson find themselves in a back-and-forth clash in an early-season men’s college basketball showcase game at Madison Square Garden in the Jimmy V Classic. The Big 12 vs. ACC clash, however, experienced a brief delay in the second half. … And it wasn’t for an injury. The delay at Madison Square Garden was instead because of a ...

The Orlando Magic are headed to Las Vegas. The Magic clamped the Miami Heat in the fourth quarter Tuesday, Dec. 9 in a 117-108 victory to earn a trip to the NBA Cup East Semifinals. Orlando will play the winner of the New York Knicks-Toronto Raptors game, set to take place later Tuesday. After missing their first seven shots of ...

Major League Baseball’s winter meetings continued Tuesday as the game’s most powerful people convened in Orlando. The market for top free agent Kyle Tucker is still unclear and the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte is a player whose name has been hot in trade rumors. The Washington Nationals are drawing interest for All-Stars CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore, two of the ...

Major League Baseball’s draft is still more than eight months away. Yet after the Dec. 9 draft lottery determined the selection order, you could say the Chicago White Sox are ready to Roch. The White Sox earned the No. 1 overall selection among eligible teams, earning them first crack at UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky – the overwhelming choice to top ...

The Orlando Magic are headed to Las Vegas. The Magic clamped the Miami Heat in the fourth quarter Tuesday, Dec. 9 in a 117-108 victory to earn a trip to the NBA Cup East Semifinals. Orlando will play the winner of the New York Knicks-Toronto Raptors game, set to take place later Tuesday. After missing their first seven shots of ...

The Toronto Raptors have been one of the surprise teams in the NBA this year. After winning just 25 games a season ago, the Raptors have stormed out to a 15-10 record in 2025. They’ve also dominated their NBA Cup matches, going 4-0 in those games with a +55 point differential, the third-best mark in the league. However, their NBA ...

LOS ANGELES — As UCLA looked for its next football coach, with hopes he will bring championships to Westwood, the Bruins got help from someone in the midst of winning their own. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was part of UCLA’s coaching search, all while his club was chasing back-to-back World Series championships. UCLA put together a search committee ...

A biopic about Brazil’s jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro is in production, his son Carlos has confirmed. In a post shared on X after his brother, Flavio, entered the country’s 2026 presidential race, Carlos lavished praise on American actor Jim Caviezel, who stars as the ex-president in the film. ‘Jim Caviezel, thank you for everything,’ Carlos wrote, describing the ‘Passion ...